The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University, Hardcover - John A. Ragosta

Reducere. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth c...

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Reducere. With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later ...

Reducere. The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An esse...

Reducere. In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat ...

Details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harboured negative impressions of Jews to become a leading Gentile champion of Israel i...

Explore the Captivating Lives of the Founding FathersEight captivating manuscripts in one book: - Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an Amer...

After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S. seized the opportunity to begin strategic faculty and student exchanges with ...

This is a meticulously researched and liberally illustrated account with exquisite drawings of key people and selected works. Biographic profiles f...

Reducere. DescriptionLIKE MONTICELLO, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest offers a significant archaeological view of slave life at the turn of the nineteenth c...

This is the first, long overdue biography of Thomas Mackay, a major promoter of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. Mackay built the Ottawa and Hartwe...

The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy--so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on so...

Reducere. The restoration of the flower gardens at Monticello in 1941, sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia, was the result of Edwin Betts's scholarly re...

In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American ...

A little-known, fascinating story about Thomas Jefferson and his obsessive quest to find America's first complete mastodon skeleton. Thomas Jeffers...

Reducere. DescriptionBehind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Island lies a history that dates back to the early exploration of the nation...

Reducere. Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in e...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Lives of the Founding FathersEight captivating manuscripts in one book: - Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an Amer...

A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service through the unusual life of its founder, Mansfield Cumming.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Darrius Jerome GourdineJewels: The Story of the Founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Second Edition) This novel is based...

The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the ...

The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the ...

Reducere. Behind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Island lies a history that dates back to the early exploration of the nation. In 1663, ...

Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto, and accompanies an exhibition currently taking place in Venice. Relev...

How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule.Britain's justification for colonial rule in...

Reducere. Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent T...

Reducere. DescriptionFounding Father George Wythe was clearly the most influential teacher in American history, judged by student achievement in high public ...

Reducere. The Age Book of the Year 2012 'A first-class piece of historical writing' - The Sunday Age Shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the 2012...

Reducere. In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look ...

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Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand--or Siam, as it was formerly known--has succeed...

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

Jewel in the Crown: Bonnie Cone and the Founding of UNC Charlotte chronicles the postwar development of the University of North Carolina at Charlot...

Reducere. The Acclaimed Debut Novel of the Best Selling Chaos Seeds Saga A mesmerizing tale reminiscent of the wonder of Ready Player One and the adventure o...

Reducere. On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising...

Reducere. Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The internationa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Barbara J. HeathEditor: Jack GaryOne hundred years in the life of a founding father's 5, 000 acre "retreat""Poplar Forest e...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson believed that the American revolution was a transformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that his own ...

Black Georgetown Remembered is a journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how th...

Reducere. The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles...